From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10094 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, November 11 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Big Deal About Tiny Mosquitoes ["Mosquito Patches" Subject: The Big Deal About Tiny Mosquitoes The Big Deal About Tiny Mosquitoes http://americanwalmart.shop/PmOwBnG1_-Z7D0tykXGbRmeN5kbHlOtcIVgo3dr7ceCJnQfegQ http://americanwalmart.shop/Sn0HrLupnxpHtXPLB0u33Y7ESR_b2H5VmRe7v4JdqFsbhMIPKA lthough Lutyens apparently produced the design very quickly, he had had the concept in mind for some time, as evidenced by his design for Southampton Cenotaph and his work for the IWGC. Lutyens and Mond had previously worked together on a design for a war shrine in Hyde Park, intended to replace a temporary structure erected during the war. Though the shrine was never built, the design started Lutyens thinking about commemorative architecture, and the architectural historian Allan Greenberg speculates that Mond may have discussed the concept of a memorial with Lutyens prior to the meeting with the prime minister. According to Tim Skelton, author of Lutyens and the Great War, "If it was not to be on Whitehall then the Cenotaph as we know it would have appeared somewhere else in due course." Several of Lutyens's sketches survive, which show that he experimented with multiple minor changes to the design, including a flaming urn at the top of the Cenotaph and sculptures of soldiers or lions at the base (similar to the lion heads on Southampton Cenotaph). Victory Parade of 19 July 1919: American troops march past the original Cenotaph. Lutyens submitted his final design to the Office of Works in early July, and on 7 July received confirmation that the design had been approved by the foreign secretary, Lord Curzon, who was organis ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10094 ***********************************************